From Rocky to Pataki: Character and Caricatures in New York Politics (Hardcover)

From the Publisher: From Rocky to Pataki is a lively blend of political cartooning and oral history, featuring forty years of drawings by award-winning cartoonist Hy Rosen. Covering New York State politics from the late 1950s to the late 1990s, Peter Slocum offers frank -- and not always flattering -- stories from more than fifty political players, while Hy Rosen's editorial cartoons paint a portrait of the Empire state as it soared under the grand dreams of Rockefeller, nearly went bust in the aftermath, and struggled to bounce back in the nineties. Interviews with Governors Malcolm Wilson, Hugh Carey, Mario Cuomo, and George Pataki; and New York City mayors Ed Koch and John Lindsay highlight this colorful look at New York, the staging area for national political upheaval, in the last half of the twentieth century.Journalist Slocum's explanatory text accompanies a collection of political cartoonist Rosen's takes (culled from the pages of the Albany Times Union and the Knickerbocker News) on Albany, New York political life from the days of Governor Nelson Rockefeller to the present time of Governor George Pataki. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.